Robbie Katter

He has led Katter's Australian Party since February 2020, succeeding his father Bob Katter, and has sat in the Queensland Parliament since 2012, since 2017 for Traeger. He is named in the market on who will be Prime Minister of Australia after the next federal election.

Career

Katter was born in Townsville on 3 March 1977, the son of federal MP Bob Katter and grandson of another Bob Katter, also a federal MP. He studied property economics at Queensland University of Technology, worked as a mine worker in Mount Isa and then for about fifteen years as a property valuer while running a small business. He sat on the Mount Isa City Council from 2008 to 2012, won the state seat of Mount Isa in 2012 and was interim state leader of his party in 2012. After the seat was abolished he was elected to the new seat of Traeger in 2017, and he held it in 2020 and 2024. He became party leader on 3 February 2020.

Positions

Wikipedia reports that Katter describes himself as an agrarian socialist. He campaigns for statehood for North Queensland and for the federal government to buy Qantas, and he has taken socially conservative positions, including opposing abortion and supporting a 2022 motion against transgender athletes in women's sport, which the Queensland Parliament defeated 49 to 33. Wikipedia describes his party's platform as agrarian socialist economic policy with conservative social policy, with support for public ownership of essential services, a development bank and tariffs to protect domestic industry. It also records the party's call to stop immigration completely and start again.

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